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Barry Clayton has a job he doesn’t want.

Sam Blackman is an angry man. A Chief Warrant Officer in the Criminal Investigation Detachment of the U.S. military, he lost a leg in Iraq.

A simple assignment for private investigator Sam Blackman and his partner Nakayla Robertson: follow Professor Janice Wainwright, who’s suing a surgeon for malpractice, and catch her in activities t

Barry Clayton has left the Charlotte police force to manage his ailing father’s funeral home in the peace and quiet of the Appalachian mountains.

“You want to borrow a casket?” Funeral director and part-time sheriff Barry Clayton finds Jaycee member Archie Donovan’s request absurd until he learns the casket will be the centerpiece of the Jay

Former Chief Warrant Officer Sam Blackman lost a leg in Iraq and emerged from the V.A. hospital in Asheville, NC, as a bitter civilian without a job or a future.

When Barry Clayton’s father developed Alzheimer’s, Barry gave up his career in law enforcement to return to the North Carolina mountain town of Gainesboro and run the family’s funeral home.

Russell Mullins has left intelligence work. When his wife dies of ovarian cancer, Rusty quits the Secret Service to repurpose his life. He joins a Washington D.C.

The night before a funeral that will thrust the mountain town of Gainesboro, North Carolina, into the national spotlight, the body is stolen from the embalming room and funeral director Barry Clayt

A detective thriller set in Sydney and introducing Cliff Hardy, private investigator, who is paid to unravel problems the police can't or won't handle.

Even when he's not involved in a major case, PI Cliff Hardy's life is far from routine.

John Gulliver, fly-by-night publisher, leaves Britain for Australia with his family, in 1910. Aboard ship catastrophe strikes and they are scattered with a famous painting their only link.

It's only 24 hours into a new case and PI Cliff Hardy's already been heavied; you know that the job is going to get his full attention.

When Barnes Todd is killed in a car smash south of Sydney, people are lining up to say how sorry they are. But Cliff Hardy, private investigator, soon discovers the accident was really murder.

Sacked by the Federal Security Agency, Crawley plays dangerous games in the Melbourne underworld.